The pancake hub of the universe -- it may sound farfetched, yet physics posits a "cosmic pancake scenario" (composed of unrelaxed superclusters aligned along strings in which galaxies and clusters of galaxies are embedded, as per Schaeffer & Silk's "Large-Scale Inhomogeneities and Galaxy Statistics"), and in Buddhism, a cosmic pancake is one of the fundamental elements of the universe (see Chogyam Trungpa's Journey Without Goal, p. 137).  Ironically, once you reach the Pancake Hub of the Universe in Liberal, Kansas, "you're not in Kansas anymore."

You've heard of Lindbergh's so-called monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, but which one?  Indeed, "Spirit is not singular" (Glenn Poveromo, The Spirit's Self-Help Book).  Our photo is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

They tell us that paisley is merely a design or a symbol, but don't believe their lies.  In this figure from Behavior of the Lower Organisms by Herbert Spencer Jennings, 1906, we see that paisley behaviour is carefully studied, if not fully understood.  The top right arrow shows the direction the paisley turns in response to stimulation, while the three interior arrows indicate the direction of the beat of the cilia.  "What form of life is paisley, exactly?" asks Jude Stewart in Salon.  Common answers include an uncurling date palm shoot, a cypress pine, a leech, a lotus, and a mango, but the truth may have us reaching for our hankies.

Meanwhile, Uel Aramchek posits that paisleys are artifacts from a parallel universe.

You've heard of an airplane's "horsepower," but did you know how literally to take that?  From c. 1937.

"We know that flying horses don't exist" (Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Logical Atomism).  (Contrary proof courtesy of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.)

Rodents are inextricable from mechanisms with dials.  This we know from the nursery ("Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock") and the laboratory (Helen Hubbert's 1915 dissertation about albino rats, in which a chartometer figures).

Hollywood isn't the only place with giant letters on a mountain.  That's W.Va. at the bottom of the postcard (its giant letters not shown).

[That's a Googlewhack, with or without the word "like."]

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classifying is difficult; divided into several categories	x	x
cultivated	x	x
often ornamental	x	x
prized in botanical gardens	x	x
crossed the Atlantic on European ships trading between South America and Africa	x	x
prone to over-collection	x	x
may be eaten by bugs	x	x
found in dry environments	x	x
occur in a wide range of sizes	x	x
quickly absorb water	x	x
roots with Latin and Greek nomenclature	x	x
long dormancies	x	x
may cause changes in mood, perception and cognition through their effects on the brain	x	x
essential for dating non-literate cultures		x

The problem with meteorology exposed: weather satellites are set to receive elk transmissions.  Image scanned by the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

One of the only differences between a roulette table and a cathedral is where the croupier sits.  We recall that "Religion is a gamble" (Michael Demers, Becoming Adam) and "Gambling is a religion" (Jason Mandryk, Operation World), that "The casino is a church" (Donald Patrick Redheffer, Streams of Thought) and "The church is a gambling house" (Hiley H. Ward, Understanding Reality Religion), that "Faith is a gamble" (Lucian Phoenix-Wolf, The Spiritual Truth Series) and "Gambling requires faith" (Mike Wojniaj, "Listen to Your Heart").  

The true First Lady is "An Average," also known as "Her Who Never Was and Who Never Is," "a kind of vague, cold, intellectual, unsubstantial, lonely, Terrible Angel called the People."  All there is to her is "a kind of light in Her eyes at times."  The relationship is unsatisfying to both the President and the First Lady, much like trying to reduce the Aurora Borealis to a simple mathematical equation.  All this we learn in The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to How a Hundred Million People (Who are Supposed in a Vague, Helpless Way to Haunt the White House) Can Make Themselves Felt with a President, How They Can Back Him Up, Express Themselves to Him, be Expressed by Him, and Get What They Want by Gerald Stanley Lee, 1920.

They say that Walter Raleigh brought the potato to England, but it was actually the other way around, as we learn in the J. M. Smith's Sons 1899 seed catalog.

The only way the citizenry can get into the White House is as the vague, helpless ghost of a generalization.  We learn this in The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to How a Hundred Million People (Who are Supposed in a Vague, Helpless Way to Haunt the White House) Can Make Themselves Felt with a President, How They Can Back Him Up, Express Themselves to Him, be Expressed by Him, and Get What They Want by Gerald Stanley Lee, 1920.

The caption to this figure identifies the three w's as being written by a monkey.  The other squiggle is unidentified, but we can now reveal it to be a translation of a Sapphic fragment defined by its decline into silence.  From The Evolution of Animal Intelligence by Samuel J. Holmes, 1911.

Where's the overlap between the beloved vampire film The Lost Boys and the open world game of Grand Theft Auto V?  Besides the vampire tooth of the game's Roman numeral and besides the boardwalk setting?  Off the top of our head, there are two music-related overlaps.  First, there's the band Age of Consent, who provide GTAV's infectious theme "Colours" (chant it with us: "go out, late night; come home, daylight").  They recorded a cover of Tim Cappello's "I Still Believe" from The Lost Boys soundtrack.  Second, the artist Twin Shadow (who serves as the DJ of Radio Mirror Park in the game and who offers the other standout track in the game, "Old Love / New Love"), has a song called "Golden Light," the chorus of which is an homage to the chorus of the film's memorable "Cry Little Sister" theme (chant it with us: "Thou shall not fall; thou shall not lie; thou shall not fear; thou shal not kill").  Twin Shadow's own lyrics are in the spirit of the film, too -- consider how this line, "Some people say there's a golden light -- you're the golden light -- and if I chase after you doesn't mean that it's true," recalls the film's character Michael who has newly arrived in the golden state and, feeling hopeless, chases after a creature of the night.